Feasibility Trial for Postoperative Wound Surveillance Using Smartphones

Patients will be trained to use the smartphone and the wound surveillance app prior to discharge. Patients will use the app from home to take send digital images of their postoperative wounds and answer a short survey, all of which will be transmitted to a secure database maintained by the UW Department of Surgery and accessible only to UW-employed study personnel. These data will be evaluated by one of three vascular surgery service nurse practitioners (NPs) daily. Patients who have concerning findings either in their images or in their survey answers will be contacted for further evaluation.